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pellet

See also: pèl·let

English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pellet (plural pellets)

  1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
    a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
  2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  4. (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
    Synonym: ogress
  5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Catalan: pèl·let

Translations

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Verb

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pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)

  1. To form into pellets.
    Synonym: pelletize
  2. To strike with pellets.

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metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction                    
roundel (in parentheses: semé):  
bezant (bezanty)		  
plate (platy)		  
torteau (tortelly)		  
hurt (hurty)		  
pellet (pellety), ogress		  
pomme

  
golpe (golpy)		  
orange (semé of oranges)		  
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:  
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		  
d'eau (of water)		  
de sang (of blood)		  
de larmes (of tears)		  
de poix

(of pitch)		  
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		  
special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction                  

Further reading

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  • “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Finnish

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Noun

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pellet

  1. nominative plural of pelle

German

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pellet

  1. second-person plural subjunctive I of pellen

Latin

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Verb

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pellet

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of pellō

Spanish

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Noun

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pellet m (plural pellets)

  1. pellet (projectile)

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from English pellet.

Noun

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pellet c

  1. (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)

Declension

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Declension of pellet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pellet pelleten pellets, pelletar pelletarna
Genitive pellets pelletens pellets, pelletars pelletarnas

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